The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25
The New Process Of Manu-
featuring
HAS BEy0LUTIONIZED THINGS.
Some Facte that go to how The Re-
narkabie Profit of RaiXing
Sorghum.

costing nearly 81, 900, 900. To provide
this amount of money must certainly
exhaust the notvery plethoric treasures
Of this hard working people. And in
deed it forms quite large proportion OF
the imports of the Territory, and causes
a serious drain upon the Territorial re-
sources to meat so heavy demand to
pay for one article Of consumption. The
possibility, therefore, of producing this
large amount of an article overy costly
and important would certainly be gladly
welcomed by all persons interested in
the financial prosperity of the Terri
tory. 1t is my privilege to announce on
this Christmas morning the pleasur&ble
information that it is not only possible
to produce the amount OF sugar con-
sumed here, but it is possible to do so
at q very considerable profit. With re
gard to the former item my experiments
and labors in the last seven years have
demonstrated that the elements I'd
soil are both prOpitious in a marked de-
gree and experience, science and skill,
aud the development of the sHgar-pro-
ducing qualities of another plant ha ge
c1mbined to overcome the depressing
effects of the disastrous failure which
b fell the splendid effort made thirty
five years ago to establish this magnifi-
cent industry; and now there is nothing
of physical nature that interposes any
serious obstacle in the way of producing
all the millions of pounds of sugar this
people uses. With regard TO making
this sugar production profitable, the in
PRODUCTION of the principle of dItfusing
instead of crushing the cane has
wrought mighty change, and brought
forward the sorghum cane as sugar
producing plant, from a comparative
failure to frst class profitable instltu-
ton. My own experience showed ME
that the powerful mill, much the largest
n the Territory, with which | made
my experiments, although crushing
stalks into comparatively dry refuse, !
could only bring about 80 to IS per
cent. of the juice from the cane, whereas !
the ditfusing process will gather 9S per
cent, of its saocharine properties !
and it positively refuses to 40 orb !
some deieterlouS elements which, by the |
crushing process, are extracted from the !
stalks and being intermixed with the !
sacchamne properties, have to be after
wards eliminated by chemical agencies. /
Thus this new process is at once the |
most effectual and the most discriminate.
Ing, and while it req uires more skill to |
manipulate. it is by far the most
thorough. In me- past efforts the few
TONS Of sugar l have made have been |
produced at the rate of only fifty !
pounds of sugar and ten gallons of
syrup 10 the ton of cane, but now to |
produce from the cane 100 pounds Of |
sugar and fifteen gallons of syrup is but
low estimate; thus determining the
profit of the manufacture. And by the
use of good and sufficient machinery
the sugar produced is of a quality well |
adapted to supply three fourths of the
demand without further refining, and
although containing 81 per cent; OF pure
sugar Qacking only 2H per cent. of be-
ing as pure as the best D. G. yet it can
be sold 81 as low a price as the imported |
"C' which contains only IS per cent. Of |
pure sugar, Thus, this homemade ar
ticle will at once overcome the objec-
tons hurled at some home productions
that they are of poorer quality and !
higher price" !
l am largely indebted for my infor-
NATION and sangulne anticipation for |
the future success of this industry in !
Utah TO my late visit to the government;
experiment. station a Fort Scott, Kan
sas, where found friends of the indus
try eiatsd with success, and where / !
found climate and soil less favorable
to the production of saccharine than are
the sweet benches and sandy soils OF /
our mountain home. | found that
there they we're subject to late frost and
cold, wet weather in the spring and /
Il |
son of tn" fall. Their soil is clayet ana i
they are liable to severe droughtlwhich
injured them considerably last summer,
Yet, Notwithstanding all these Difficult
ties, Geld and wet spring, clayey
soil. summer drought, early frost and
heavy rains in the tall, such is the +
hardy nature of the sorghum plant that
they reaped fair harvest where corn
failed. and the sucrose in the cane ,
showed a good percentage. In our owR
bright climate, with our sweet sandy
soil, soaking spring rains, summer
moisture controlled by irrigation, clear
WtallZDg atmosphere, and under the !
ierulIZing rays of the summers sun, in 4
localities where gentle mountain (
breeze will watt away the approach of
tie first irOst till late in October, the {
difficulties above mentioned are dimin- :
lshed To a minimum, the prospects of !
success are emphasized and the favor
able elements aud conditions enhanced I
beyond cavil or question. And with re- {
gard TO the profit of the undertaking. /
am preparing an array of figures which
o ot. ouly, as men using the hackneyed
expression are sure to say, looks very t
we'll on paper" but they can bear the r
closest scrutiny by business and indus s
trial men. can be verified in the most q
thorough and noteworthy manner and 1
are convincing TO any practical man of a
good sense and experience. q
] am pleased TO be able to inform YOUR Z
readers that not only the diffusion pro- O
8ess. but the right 10 use in this rerri- d
50ry two patented processes necessary | o
IA connection Herewith are III nv con